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1) PIP Side by Side.2) DishComm ( I can't use it, but I see value for others)3) Priority seems to be taken into account with multiple timers of the same show. This is useful for creating SD and Dish HD local back up Timers when you have an OTA conflict. 4) HD logo stuff. Find it really handy and adds to the usefullness. 5) HDMI Test. Useful if your HDMI port goes out. 6) Pause Jump to live7) Dish Pass HD/SD Priority. Real useful for Planet Earth on Sunday where the EPG is messed up. 8) Timer Increased. THough I don't run into, I know others do and this really helps. 9) My audio on my Dish HD locals and National Geo HD seemed to have improved greatly. Still need more time, but it was a big step for me.

Ron,

What is #6, pause jump to live and how does it work? Also one new feature I found that I have not seen mentioned is using the position button to toggle between full and split screen while in the split screen mode. If you're in split screen, push the position button and the active split becomes full. Push the position button again and return to the original split. I think that is a very useful feature, especially for sporting events. One thing that was not fixed was the CC display bug. I really think this has something to do with the "foreground opacity" setting as it does not work. I actually took the time to attach a couple of video clips highlighting this problem to my bug report response I sent to Dish Beta Bugs. Maybe they will take a look at it.

What is #6, pause jump to live and how does it work? Also one new feature I found that I have not seen mentioned is using the position button to toggle between full and split screen while in the split screen mode. If you're in split screen, push the position button and the active split becomes full. Push the position button again and return to the original split. I think that is a very useful feature, especially for sporting events. One thing that was not fixed was the CC display bug. I really think this has something to do with the "foreground opacity" setting as it does not work. I actually took the time to attach a couple of video clips highlighting this problem to my bug report response I sent to Dish Beta Bugs. Maybe they will take a look at it.

Maybe I am getting version confused.. There was bug where sometimes when did a pause and then unpause some time later you would jump to Live TV not the position you were. This only happend with Live TV viewing. I have not seen with this version and don't recall it being fixed in 3.65, but maybe my memory recall is not accurate.

As for CC? I know you use it Eagles. Is it better? Same? or worse?

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It's basically the same, which means it's OK for the most part. The bug I refer to has to do with how you set your CC to be displayed using the various options in the CC menu, most notably the "opacity" settings. When you set the background to transparent it creates problems with the CC lettering. It becomes broken up as if it doesn't know weather to display itself in the solid, translucent or transparent mode. The "foreground opacity" setting is not working at all. Changes made in the menu have no affect on the lettering. This leads me to believe that this may be part of the problem. I've had my 622 since June 2006. It has always been like this. These options worked great on my 921. If you want I could send you a couple of video clips to show you exactly what I'm referring to. Email me and I'll reply with the clips attached.

I am really disipointed in E*'s Release of L4.01. It was mostly hype on top of hype. I was hoping to do interactive guides through the internet w/ this patch, Satilight and Cable companies need to get their act together to get this working!!! They have this capablity on TIVO, Microsoft Media Center. The only problem is that the tech is not quite up there yet to allow recording of HD though the HDMI or Componet cabling to get the full HD experience. Tivo Comes close, but it only works with HD through Cable. If my area had cable I might have dropped money for TivoHD rather then E*HD. I would have kept the VIP211 if my media center could handle the HDMI input. I believe that becuase there was no Major enhancements (other then graphical, a few things nobody really wanted, and Bug Fixes) this release should have been coded out as L3.70 :whatdidid

Only 2 good things came from the L4.01 in my mind.
1) Better HDMI support. -> No more godzilla naration when watching TV. (You know sound before Lip movement) I had this alot w/ my sony tv before the upgrade forcing me to reboot either the box or the TV.

You know what I wish had been implemented in this release? Some sort of software change that would make the 622's internal fan run full-time on a slow speed. Anything to help the overheating issue. I suppose the fan might be hard-wired to the board and not on software at all.

Create Two timers for American Idol. One for OTA with a higher priority and the other with DishHD with one priority lower. THis way, any OTA timer with a higher priority than AI will use the OTA timer and the AI Dish HD will be used. If there is no OTA conflict the AI OTA TImer gets used.

Ron, I have tried that exact scenario in reverse. I don't get the best OTA reception, so I create duplicates of AI, CSI, etc... using the HD Dish as 1st priority and OTA as second. Despite my prioritizing, the 622 chooses the OTA as 1st priority still. Weekly, I have to go through my timers and "skip" the OTA timers to allow the Dish HD sat timers to record. It gets old...

Hard to blame Dish for your own presumptions, isn't it? I don't recall Dish (including the Tech chat) announcing anything to do with DishOnline as being part of this release.

I do see a lot of folks reading the rumors in various forums, and then creating their own expectations. That is hardly something to blame on Dish.

Frankly, I think they have done a good job here with this release as it appears to have fixed several known bugs and introduced some new features as well.

Actually.. DishOnline is not what this guy is ranting about. He is ranting about the ability to do timer managment over the web if I am reading the rant correctly. Something I personally think has a bit of wow factor to it, but in practically I personally don't think I would use it a lot. It could see where it could be handy on that rare time when I forgot to set a timer, but for me personally I would rank this feature pretty low. Native Resolution and external USB support are the two I rank high.

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Unfortunately, the priority settings do not seem to be used for this like you would think. It seems to go in "natural" order, so whick ever timer is created first is usually the one that wins, but you can't really trust that.

You could try deleting both timers, then creating them in the order of preference, and you might find it gets it right a bit more often.

I just wish the timers were actually processed in priority order. That would make this work as we would want.

What I really want is anamorphic output on the TV2 for dual mode. I have 3 16x9 TVs now and a fourth one coming probably within the year. I know I am a little ahead of the curve here, but I can't be the only one out there with a 622 and more than one 16x9 TV.

And no I cannot run the unit in the single mode, I need two independent units.

See ya
Tony

For the life of me I will never understand why people will pay hundreds and thousands of dollars on a TV that provides the clearest, sharpest, most realistic picture possible and then, voluntarily, distort the image!

I could be mistaken... but I thought on the last Tech Chat (not Charlie Chat) when they mentioned DishOnline coming "soon" there was mention of the ability do do this as part of that feature as well.

I could be imagining... but I swear I heard that. I also remember hearing, as noted in my other reply, that neither Dishonline nor that feature were coming with this update.

Remote capability has been mentioned. I think it was mentioned in the last Tech Chat, but I would consider them mutually exclusive. If I recall, I could be remembering wrong, they were mentioned at different times.

Either way.. Neither was was ever indicated to be in this release.

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That puzzles me too. Maybe it means matching the output to the program source? Some programming originates as 480i, some as 720p, some as 1080i. Maybe they want the output of the 622 to switch resolutions depending on source?

That puzzles me too. Maybe it means matching the output to the program source? Some programming originates as 480i, some as 720p, some as 1080i. Maybe they want the output of the 622 to switch resolutions depending on source?

That puzzles me too. Maybe it means matching the output to the program source? Some programming originates as 480i, some as 720p, some as 1080i. Maybe they want the output of the 622 to switch resolutions depending on source?

Or, more accurately, to allow the 622 to pass the signal thru to the TV or DVDR without doing any conversion of the content so the conversion is done only by the output device.

you mean of course, no conversion other than the conversion that Dish does to whatever non-ATSC-standard format that comes in on the MPEG-2/4 sream?

I think some kind of conversion to a format compliant with your TV's input is necessary. I'll vote for minimal changing of the signal, or give me a button on the remote to do it myself. Having to get to it through the menus is a PITA.

On my Oppo DV-981HD DVD player you can press a button on the remote and cycle through all of the output modes and pick the one that looks best on the fly. That would be a nice feature on the 622. You can do the same thing with a HR20 (D*).

Don't forget the sticky buffers. For those of us who learned to watch on the TIVO, this is a much appreciated feature.

My HDMI port hasn't worked since the first month that I have had my 622, so I don't know about the 5.1 support.

I would appreciate that external storage support. Although I use my pocketdish right now to offload stuff. But, I can't put anything back onto the 622. I have to watch it straight out of the pocketdish...and no HD in the pocketdish.

My HDMI port crapped out after the first month also. I called DISH and they wanted me to jump through a bunch of bells and whistle before they would do anything about it. I said forget it... and than the component video ports stopped working. I called DISH and complained and mentioned about the numerous complaints on the HDMI port not working on the 622 from DBSTalk.com and they sent out a replacement that is working great. I sent the bad receiver back in the box they sent the replacement unit with a prepaid UPS label.

you mean of course, no conversion other than the conversion that Dish does to whatever non-ATSC-standard format that comes in on the MPEG-2/4 sream?

Exactly. That is what I see as the problem with "pass through" ... the signal goes through bandwidth saving steps between the source and your receiver.

The "pass through" would simply be outputting the signal in the ATSC resolution closest to the source instead of in one chosen resolution. The receiver would still handle scaling the output to 480i, 720p or 1080i (depending on what the source was). Then the TV would rescale the picture for display.

It doesn't sound like such a good idea when one puts it that way ... rescaling.

It sure is. I've hooked it up to a Denon 4806 and a Lexicon MC12HD and it works perfectly on both. Unfortunately, my second 622 didn't get 4.01 and when I switched it out, the HDMI didn't work. I'll run the HDMI reset when it does get the upgrade and if that doesn't fix it, I'll swap it out.

HD RSN's would not be in a software release. It is programming.

External Hard Drive support is reported to be coming later (maybe this summer).